This week on All About The Archers, Philippa and Lauren discuss the episodes from Sunday 15th, Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th February.

Spoiler warning if you are not up to date.

There is romantic confusion, questionable communication, family tensions bubbling beneath the surface and plenty of strong opinions from around the village.

In this episode we talk about:

• Whether Rex is genuinely clueless or simply cautious
• Alice’s approach to dating and what it might mean going forward
• Stella’s brother arriving in Ambridge and first impressions
• Tensions at work and management missteps
• Birthday gestures and unintended consequences
• Village gossip and shifting alliances
• Justin and Sigourney’s environmental enthusiasm
• Sibling dynamics and inheritance pressure
• Predictions for where several relationships may be heading
• Star of the Week and Twit of the Week

There are differing opinions, bold predictions (some more reliable than others), and plenty of debate about what might happen next.

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EMERGENCY EPISODE

We weren’t planning to record today. Philippa is ill. Quentin is busy. There’s a pantomime involved.

But our Facebook group demanded it.

After the shock confession in The Archers, we had to sit down and unpick what on earth is going on.

Spoilers up to Friday morning (we haven’t included Friday’s episode yet).

Is this really the end of the mystery — or are they covering for someone?

In this emergency deep-dive, we discuss:

• Why the calm confession doesn’t “stitch up”
• The New Year’s Eve clues
• Whether they would really chase George that night
• The theory that they are covering for someone
• The succession tension, and that awkward pause
• Fallon’s cut hand – coincidence or clue?
• Jazzer’s evasiveness and why it’s bothering us
• Why Keira would have made more dramatic sense
• George’s recording and the blackmail implications
• Whether this storyline could be writing someone out
• And why parts of this reveal have left us… irritated

We also debate:

Is George about to return to full “Bad George” mode?

Is blackmail now inevitable?

And how long can this storyline realistically run?

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